Now halfway through the run of Premier League games following football's return, bosses at Sky Sports can look back with incredulity, raise a smile, and wonder exactly how they pulled it all together in time.
Sky have been broadcasting Premier League matches since the competition's inception in 1992 - but not like this.
Not with half the number of staff on-site at stadiums. Not with socially distanced interviews and with purpose-built production 'trucks' inside SkyHQ to pull off triple - and even quadruple - headers. Not amid a pandemic. And perhaps the biggest challenge of all; Graeme Souness' questionable home broadband.
'We would plan for at least six months for some of the changes,' director of operations, James Clement, explained to Sportsmail.
'There would be lots of working groups, rehearsal days and those sorts of things. But we didn't have the ability to do any of those...'
Sky Sports had three weeks to overhaul their operation to be ready to broadcast Premier League games after lockdown with an emphasis on social distancing measures.
The main studio for presenters and analysts has become much more spacious to avoid close contact between individuals in what is one of the biggest changes as they emerged from Covid-19 lockdown
Rather than direct from production trucks outside stadiums, two matches are being broadcast concurrently either side of a fake wall that has been erected under new measures.
The set-ups on the left and right have been built to mimic what directors had access to in the trucks outside stadiums. A director for the world feed coverage sits in between at a safe distance
Manchester City's visit of Liverpool was broadcast on Sky and they had less than half of the people they usually have on site.
Only around 300 people are allowed inside a stadium on game day, whereas usually Sky would have half that figure alone.
Temperature testing is now mandatory at SkyHQ as one of the many health and safety measures introduced after a pandemic as a member of security personal is captured on the new technology with one camera acting as an infra-red camera to pick up on the temperature of arrivals.
The temperature cannot exceed 38 degrees celsius or the individual will be turned away
The coronavirus pandemic took football off screens for 화초 인테리어 three months and it soon became apparent that any restart would require Sky to not only broadcast numerous games in a short amount of time, but also with limited boots on the groun
/>Fortunately for them, the groundwork to do just that had been laid years earlier.
Remote-production - a method which relies less heavily on having staff on-site at the grounds of an event - has been utilised by Sky Sports dating back to 2015 with the US Open tennis in New York.
That tennis major, along with the British and Irish Lions tour, have been covered and produced remotely while the broadcaster's Formula One coverage is done remotely with minimal staff on the ground for race weekends, which returned for the first race of the season in Austria on Sunday.
There were immediate challenges to conquer, though, with Souness' WiFi speed causing all sorts of issues for the team working on the daily Football Show, which was a key part of maintaining programming during the 100-day live action hiatu
/>And then there was the time Sky Sports presenter Rob Wotton welcomed an unlikely guest onto The Football Show - as his window cleaner turned up at his house while he was live on air.
This lockdown has been anything other than dull at Sky, that's for sure.
